Once again, UNESCO -- the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization -- has praised Cuba’s excellent contribution to education and places the island among the most developed nations, despite the U.S. blockade againsst the island.... More
There is between the global North and the global South a fundamental difference in world views. The view from the South is historical, and it is unable to set aside the historical facts of colonialism, neocolonialism, imperialism, and more recently, neoliberalism; while the view of the North is ahistorical.... More
Radio Havana Cuba's Roberto Bastidas presents an exclusive interview with Cuban-American lawyer and political analyst José Pertierra. They talk about the new book by John Bolton, former U.S. National Security Advisor to Donald Trump called "The Room Where It Happened."... More
Cuba has been able to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, and it has initiated the first phase of the stage of recuperation in thirteen of the nation’s fifteen provinces.... More
The future of our planet seems quite gloomy. Worldwide, there are more than eight million 300 thousand people infected with COVID-19 -- almost half of them concentrated in The Americas... with several countries in our region still on the upward curve of the disease.... More
An international campaign is underway in support of the nomination of the Cuban Henry Reeve medical brigade for the Nobel Peace Prize... More
Three US Senators, who have done little to advance the interests of the Caribbean and with whom requests for meetings by many Caribbean ambassadors are usually shunted to their staff, are now proposing US government punishment for Caribbean countries that request assistance from Cuba for medical personnel. By Sir Ronald Sanders... More
Richard Haass recently published in Foreign Affairs an article entitled, “The Pandemic Will Accelerate History Rather Than Reshape It.” Haass is President of the Council on Foreign Relations; the article shows the limited understanding of the U.S. political establishment.... More
We need first to understand that the United States of America is not a democratic society. It is a political-economic-ideological system with a democratic façade, but not a democratic substance. It has been so since its proclamation in 1776 and its constitutional founding in 1787.... More
Cuban science has played a fundamental role in the confrontation of COVID-19. Remarkable international results have been achieved, creating a favorable scenario towards the resumption of the country’s normal activities, which will be gradually restored over time.... More
Charles McKelvey, a columnist for Radio Havana Cuba, English Program, has written seven columns reflecting on the protest in the United States provoked by the killing of George Floyd. ... More
From 1930 to 1965, the African-American movement, through mass action campaigns in the North and South, compelled the federal government to take decisive action in defense of the political and civil rights of black citizens, culminating in the Civil Rights and Voting Rights laws of 1964 and 1965. These changes were fully consistent with the simultaneous transition of the world-system from colonialism to neocolonialism.... More
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel addresses the High Level Conference on Economy, Finance and Trade / June 10, 2020 https://cdn.teveo.cu/media/as/j7/pXwcBgDfZWut/artifact/beCfg87Vf27rSwfE.mp3... More
Slavery in the U.S. South functioned to provide cheap labor for the production of cotton; and the post-slavery system of low-waged tenant farming and sharecropping, supported by Jim Crow segregation, possessed the same economic functionality. However, during the course of the twentieth century, Jim Crow segregation became dysfunctional, because of its incompatibility with the U.S. role as the leading nation in a neocolonial world order.... More
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